Connecticut western news., 1887-02-23

-If you nave house or farm for sale or to let, now is the time to adver- tise the same.
 Quite a number of the friends of MT. and Mrs. Jerome Root gave them sur prise party Monday evening.
 Mrs Sabra Humphrey is in Sharon Valley taking care of Mrs. Lloyd and Mrs. Charles Marvin who are enjoying the measles.
 | Frank Van Deusen recently lost a good COW. He can truthfully say ''just my luck" for he has lost nineteen horses within few years.
 Robert M. Burwell, dentist at West Winsted, whose advertisement appears in another column, has purchased the instruments and dental outfit left by the late R. B. Curtis of Winsted.
 The Baby Pathfinder for Feb. 15 is at hand. It is issued by the New Eng land Railway ublishing Go. 67 Federal | St., Boston. Price 5 cents. For sale by newsdealers.
 You want that set of trucks and you will never get a better chance to buy wagons, harness, horses and farm stock than F. H. Smith now offers you. Don't fail to read his advertisement. A new employment for women is suggested by MT. A. J. Harvey, who does not see why they should not tune their own pianos, and also find suitable and remunerative work in tuning the pianos of others MonHor.
 The different branches of the Adam family in Canaan lost two cousins with in week, viz: Mrs. Lucy W. Rockwell of Lenox, Mass, who died Feb. 13, and Mrs. Jane B. Pierce Of Champaign, Ill, who died Feb 19.
 -E R. Lorrain has rented the Metho- dist parsonage for the ensuing year, with the exception of the parlor and parlor chamber, which are reserved for the pastors study and sleeping apart ment.
 Our New Marlboro correspondent wonders why correspondence from that place is delayed. We cannot explain it. but the fact that the present cores pondence is dated Feb 20 but postnaa1'hed Feb p may throw some light OF the subject.
 We have occasionally said in these columns 'sPlease do not expect us to record wedding presents when the list is longer than the moral law" In pub fishing the report of the Rood-Bulman wedding we omitted the list of presents because it covered five pages of note paper, but any one can see said list by calling at the NEWS office. -"Why He Saw Snakes" is the title of strikingly illustrated temperance pamphlet published by W. H. Brearley, 65 Shelby St., Detroit, Mich, who will send to one address, at one time, when order is accompanied by P. O. order, 100 copies for S20O. Five hundred copies, S75O or 1000 copies for 5000. For sale at cents copy by all news dealers.
 If you wish to see the best .assort ment of watches, clocks, jewelry, silver ware, eye glasses, spectacles, gold pens and pencils, plush goods, albums, &c., that was ever brought into this town, then call at Geo. V. Capron's jewelry store in this village. Orders taken for gilt mouldings and picture frames. Samples on exhibition.
 | A Stockbridge correspondent writes: We would advise farmers who are very much troubled with mice de- stroying bags containing grain and other produce to try an experiment. It is said that if the bags are strongly tied and placed standing with the tied end on the floor the mice will not offer to touch them. It has been tried by persons who report the above result.
 The many friends of ''Ad" Ostran- der, our popular road maker, will be grieved to hear of an accident which happened to him on Monday of this week. He was out hunting on the
 mountain near Salisbury where he slip
 ped, breaking one of his legs above the knee. He was alone when injured an6 lay for some time when he was discov
 cred by passer. by and carried to his
 home in Salisbury. Dr. Bisse3l was a
 once summoned and the injured liml
 cared for.
 Rev. E. H. Roys, of Spencertown
 N Y., writes us under date of Feb. IA
 as follows: 'sIt may be of interest tc
 some of your readers to know that we are having powerful revival of religion
 in our church at Spencertown. It i:
 reaching all classes and ages, the inebri
 ate and the abstainer, the Sabbatl
 school scholar and the gray-heade6 man. The oldest person converted i ! man 85 years of age."
 On Wednesday last the old firm o l Fuller & Peet was dissolved by mutua consent. A copartnership has beer formed by George s. Fuller and Josept } W. Peet. who will continue the mer
 camille business at the old stand ant 7 also retain the name of the origiua , firm. Both gentlemen are too vel known to need any introduction or rec 8 ommendation from us and we can onl,
 wish them as liberal patronage ant full measure of success as the old frn |